Pluto
The slow, non-negotiable rebuild.
- Speed
- twelve to thirty years in each sign, depending on its orbit
- Retrograde
- once a year, for about five months
- Rules
- nothing traditionally — modern astrology assigns it Scorpio
- Keywords
- power · compulsion · transformation
Pluto is the deepest and slowest thing the chart tracks, and the least interested in your preferences. Where it sits is where change happens by demolition rather than adjustment — the area of life that gets taken apart and put back differently, often more than once.
Its orbit is eccentric enough that it spends twelve years in some signs and thirty in others, so generations are unevenly sized. Reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, which changed nothing about the geometry astrology uses it for — a point worth stating plainly rather than arguing about.
Whether Pluto is retrograde today, and when it next turns, is on the retrograde tracker. Where it stands right now is on the sky today.
Where it stood the day you were born — cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.